| Show k i iBy By Eric Bresee Columnist Excuse my French but all aU hell is breaking breaking breaking break break- ing loose at You see four years ago built a softball field before the College even had a team Apparently a acoach acoach coach had been hired as well Time past and four years years ago a vote was taken to add a new sp sport rt Obvious Obviously y with the field already built softball would be a shoo r Wrong r Baseball and women's volleyball were f the big winners winner's as the student body voted against adding softball much to the chagrin chagrin chagrin cha cha- grin of Athletic Director Norma Carr l. l Carr a member of the Utah Softball Hall of Fame has been pushing for a softball softball softball soft- soft ball team since she became AD in 1989 Well Norma your wish has been grant grant- ed During a Board of Trustees meeting last month the addition of a softball team was approved No vote by the student body noti no ti increase in the budget nothing While the Field of Dreams mantra of if you build it they will come still holds true it is very disheartening to see seethe seethe seethe the addition of softball occur in this man man- ner The kind of back door politics that allowed softball to become a sport at are why this college will never be beable beable beable able to compete at a national level Case Casein in point Carr said the athletic department will try to carry softball on the budget they have With no budget increase this means the other four sports at get screwed The budget of each sport will get cut to support this monstrosity How must baseball Head Coach Bill Groves feel Your team gets shafted by having to play your home games off campus because of one persons person's egotistical cal cockeyed views to build a field before even receiving a team Needless to say it has to feel somewhat below average But wait the field is used for rals and by the community Im I'm starting my third year here at and I have yet yetto yetto to see anybody on that waste of space So if the community is using it its it's probably for a place to walk their dogs You can give me all this Title IX garbage you want as well So has hasto hasto to conform to Title IX Why pick a sport that does not even have a club on campus campus campus cam cam- pus Im I'm guessing if there is not already a ai i club on campus there is not that much support for it in the first place f In order to comply with Title IX why wasn't women's soccer added There is a ai i women's soccer club on campus Its It's been t around for five years The soccer club is IS five years ahead of the softball program k It is asinine to think that the women's soccer soccer soccer soc soc- club can make it to Nationals two years year in a row and are nearly guaranteed a aspot at t spot in this years year's tournament and not be beI bec c added as a sport I z Its It's a sad state has slipped into with this addition One p persons person's dream r. r rt i has become a reality while a much- much t k deserving teams team's has been shattered X What a pity |
